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Christ Church West Central
2018 CANDIDATES
 BLP
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Adrian
FORDE
Barbados Labour
Party
 DLP
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Stephen A.
LASHLEY*
Democratic Labour
Party
 SB
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Kenneth
LEWIS
Solutions
Barbados
 UPP
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Ria
RILEY
United Progressive
Party
 
CONSTITUENCY SNAPSHOT  
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South Point Light House, Christ Church, Barbados
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BACKGROUND
The constituency of Christ Church West Central was created and first contested in 1981.
Year of creation 1981
Polling Divisions 9
Registered Electors (2013) 8,665
Voter Turnout (2013) 58.60%
   
Incumbent Stephen LASHLEY (DLP)
2013 RESULTS
Candidate Party Votes %
  LASHLEY, S. winner DLP 2,940 58.19%
   
  DURANT-CALLENDER, M BLP 112 41.81%
   
ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES  
Year   Winner Party % Votes Notes
1981   Maurice A. KING Democratic Labour Party 70.94% First time seat contested
1986   Maurice A. KING Democratic Labour Party 64.51% DLP hold
1991   Maurice A. KING Democratic Labour Party 48.15% DLP hold
1994   Joseph M. EDGHILL Barbados Labour Party 51.38% BLP gain
1999   Joseph M. EDGHILL Barbados Labour Party 60.10% BLP hold
2003   Joseph M. EDGHILL Barbados Labour Party 54.51% BLP hold
2008   Stephen A. LASHLEY Democratic Labour Party 59.53% DLP gain
2013   Stephen A. LASHLEY Democratic Labour Party 58.19% DLP hold
VOTING TRENDS  
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CONSTITUENCY TIMELINE  
Thursday
21 Feb 2013
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Candidate Party Total Votes % votes
STEPHEN A. LASHLEY winner DLP 2,940 58.19%
Margo A. Durant-Callender BLP 2,112 41.81%
Tuesday
15 Jan 2008
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Candidate Party Total Votes % votes
STEPHEN A. LASHLEY winner DLP 3,085 62.40%
Joseph M. Edgill* BLP 2,097 44.73%
Wednesday
21 May 2003
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Candidate Party Total Votes % votes
JOSEPH M. EDGHILL winner BLP 2,361 54.51%
Laurence E. Clarke DLP 1,970 45.49%
Wednesday
20 Jan 1999
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Candidate Party Total Votes % votes
JOSEPH M. EDGHILL winner BLP 2,515 60.10%
Rudy W. Grant DLP 1,634 39.04%
Edwin L. Adams IND 36 0.86%
Tuesday
6 Sep 1994
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Candidate Party Total Votes % votes
JOSEPH H. EDGHILL winner BLP 2,161 51.38%
Rudy W. Grant DLP 1,544 36.71%
Harold R. Russell NDP 501 11.91%
Tuesday
22 Jan 1991
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Candidate Party Total Votes % votes
MAURICE A. KING  winner DLP 1,773 48.15%
Joseph M. Edghill  BLP  1,611 43.75%
Harold L. Russell NDP 298 8.09%
Friday
28 Mar 1986
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Candidate Party Total Votes % votes
MARICE A. KING winner DLP 4,229 64.51%
O'Brien Trotman BLP 2,327 35.49%
Thursday
18 Jun 1981
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Candidate Party Total Votes % votes
MAURICE KING winner DLP 2,798 52.17%
Maurice Ward BLP 2,565 47.83%
POLLING STATIONS (2018)  
Polling Division Areas
CA1 The Living Water Faith Ministries (old Smith Corner Church)
CA2 Deighton Griffith Secondary School
CB1 Christ Church Foundation School
CC1 Vauxhall Primary School
CC2 Vauxhall Primary School
CC3 Deighton Griffith Secondary School
CC4 Revival Time Assembly, Maxwell Hill
CD1 Christ Church Foundation School
CD2 Revival Time Assembly, Maxwell Hill
CONSTITUENCY BOUNDARIES
From the junction of Sargeants Village Tenantry Road with Highway 6 (Bridgetown-Sargeants Village Road) in an easterly direction along the middle of Highway 6; thence in a southerly direction along the middle of Highway 6 to its junction with Vauxhall Road; thence in an easterly direction along the middle of the Vauxhall Road to its junction with the Bannatyne-Kingsland Road junction; thence in a southerly direction along the middle of the Bannatyne-Kingsland Road to its junction with the ABC highway; thence across the ABC Highway, thence in a south easterly direction along the middle of the Kingsland-Gall Hill Road to its junction with the Water Street Road; thence in an easterly direction along the middle of the Water Street Road to its junction with Highway T (the Lodge Road-Oistins Hill Road); thence in a southerly direction along the middle of Highway T to its junction with the Church Hill Road; thence in an easterly direction along the middle of the Church Hill Road to its junction with Windy Ridge; thence in a south easterly direction along the middle of Windy Ridge to its junction with Highway 7 (the Oistins-Airport Road); thence in a westerly direction along the middle of Highway 7 to the junction of Church Road; thence in a westerly direction along the middle of Church Road, to its junction at Oistins Hill with the Cane Vale-Maxwell Hill Road; thence in a westerly direction along the middle of the Cane Vale-Maxwell Hill Road to its junction with the Graeme Hall Terrace-Maxwell Hill Road; thence in a north westerly direction along the middle of the Graeme Hall Terrace Road to its junction with the Errol Barrow Highway (opposite the Ministry of Agriculture); thence in a northerly direction along the middle of the Errol Barrow Highway to its junction with the Errol Barrow Roundabout; thence in a westerly direction along the middle of the ABC Highway to a point south of the western boundary of Lot #29 Tino Terrace, Graeme Heights; thence in a northerly direction along the western boundary of Tino Terrace-Warners Gardens Development; thence to the northern boundary of Lot #53 Warners Gardens; thence in an easterly direction along the northern boundary of Warners Gardens to a point where it meets the southern terminus of Brownes Road (at Lot #76 Warners Gardens) thence in a northerly direction along the middle of Brownes Road-Sargeants Village Tenantry Road to its junction with Highway 6 (the starting point).
Key
  Bajan Free Party   NDP = National Democratic Party   United Progressive Party
  Barbados Integrity Movement   People's Democratic Congress   WPB = Workers Party of Barbados
  Barbados Labour Party   PEP = People's Empowerment Party   Independent Candidate
  Democratic Labour Party   PPA = People's Political Alliance   *incumbent
  Kingdom Government of Barbados   Solutions Barbados   ** Political Leader
Sources
Barbados Electoral and Boundaries Commission
Bajan Free Party (2018). Retrieved from https://www.facebook.com/Bajan-Free-Party-BFP-HonAlex-MitchellEl-1767331239973521/
Barbados Integrity Movement (2018). Retrieved from https://www.facebook.com/barbdaosintegritymovement/?ref=py_c
Barbados Labour Party. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.blp.org.bb/
Coalition of United Party. (2018) Retrieved from https://www.facebook.com/alexmitchell.el/
Democratic Labour Party. (2018). Retrieved from http://dlpbarbados.org/site/
Solutions Barbados. (2018). Retrieved from https://solutionsbarbados.com/
United Progressive Party. (2018). Retrieved from https://uppbarbados.org/
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